bpa;139672 Wrote: > AlienBBC uses mplayer to do RealAudio decoding. The RealAudio codec as > implemented needs Floating point support. > > As an example - a 266MHZ PPC processor with FPU (such as in QNAP, > DS-106, Linkstation HG) can handle decoding needing only about 10-15% > CPU. A 266Mhz ARM processor (as in NSLU2) no FPU - the > compiler/libraries provides floating point emulation - the ARM > processor cannot decode a stream in real time. > > Real have implemented a fixed point decoder for RealAudio on ARM > processors and it works. > > I don't know what processor is in the Infrant box but I presume it > doesn't have an FPU.
Thanks for the explanation - I always wondered what the problem was. -- AndrewC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5631 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27841 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
